Visual Puns!

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002289/jokes.html
Bird Puns: http://www.getty.edu/education/teacherartexchange/archive/Aug05/0388.html
Starfish: a visual pun: http://www1.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=75259&title=Star_Fish_A_Visual_Pun
One liner puns: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/puns-for-kids.html
Funny puns: http://www.jokesclean.com/Puns/FunnyPuns.php





What is a visual Pun? It is a play on words when a saying has 2 meanings. It is the use of symbols to suggest two or more meanings or different associations. Visual Puns combine two or more symbols (picture and/or text) to form a new meaning, often times in a humorous or clever way.
1. Spelling Bee 21. Watch dog
2. Tree surgeon 22. Fan Club
3. Handyman 23. Water Closet
4. Home Run 24. Strong Box
5. Lime Light 25. Bookworm
6. Internal Revenue 26. Loud Tie
7. Funny Bone 27. Toothpick
10. Smoked salmon 28. Gatorade
11. Hot Dog 29. VW Bug Car
12. Bug Eyes 30. Horse Fly
13. Sandwich Shop 31. Wisdom Tooth
14. Boxing Match 32. Hand Cuffs
15. Brainstorm 33. Butter Fly
16. Pen Pals 34. Eye Ball
17. Niagara Falls 35. Football
18. Shoe Tree 36.Fire Drill
19. Trigger Finger 37. Star Fish
20. Fishing for a Compliment 38. Fruit Punch

  • Balancing the books
  • Ballpark figure
  • Basket case
  • Cold feet
  • Fly off the handle
  • Ear to the ground
  • Footing the bill
  • Forty winks
  • Hot seat
  • Rolling in Dough
  • Telephone bill
  • Fairy tale
  • Musical chairs
  • A picture is worth a thousand words
  • Raining cats and dogs
  • Talk turkey
  • A fly in the ointment
  • The cat's pajamas
  • Butterfly
  • Lighthouse
  • Eyeglasses
  • Figment
  • Airshow
  • Tinkerbelle
  • Carwash
  • Card shark
  • Traffic jam
  • Nightmare
  • Sockeye Salmon
  • Lockjaw
  • Footlocker
  • Chain smoker
  • Green thumb
  • Step ladder
  • Longjohns
  • Bell bottoms
  • Umbrella stand
  • Glow worm
  • Pie in the sky
  • Doorstop
  • Kneecaps
  • Snake charmer
  • Finger painting
  • Horseradish
  • Knuckle sandwich
  • Ballroom dancing
  • Spelling bee
  • Handyman
  • Pickled Herring
  • Internal Revenue
  • Funny bone
  • Hotdog
  • Boxing match
  • Brainstorm
  • Door mouse
  • Pioneer
  • Car pool
  • Footnote
  • Piano Tuna
  • Strawberry Sundae
  • Belle of the Ball
  • Finger bowl
  • Bed of Roses
  • Boxed in
  • Bad spell of weather
  • Hemmed in
  • Funny bone
  • Airtight
  • Paint the town red
  • Cheap skate
  • Cloud nine
  • Nose to the grindstone
  • 7-up
  • Charley Horse
  • Toe Truck
  • Speak frankly
  • Lamb stew
  • Liquidate
  • Metronome
  • Bulldozer
  • Submarine sandwich
  • Couch potato
  • Eskimo Pie
  • Armed to the teeth
  • Balancing the books
  • Basket case
  • Rule of thumb

Names for Visual Puns
|| Siamese Fighting fish
Paradise fish
Firemouth Cichlid
Convict Cichlid
Zebra Cichlid
Rosy Barb
Tiger Barb
Harlequin Rasbora
Dragonfish
Wolf fish
Snake pipefish
Great pipefish
Spiny Dogfish

White Cloud Mountain Fish
Swordtail fish
Bleeding Heart fish
Blind cave fish
Silver Dollar fish
Pencil Fish
Penguin Fish
Scissors Tail Fish
Glass Fish
Armoured Catfish
Jewel Fish
Picked dogfish
Dragonet

Leaf Fish
Clown Loach
Australian Rainbow Fish
Archer Fish
Beacon Fish
Egyptian Mouth-breeder Mosquito Fish
Flag fish
Black Widow fish
Pirate
Perch
Toadfish
Striped Squirrel fish